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Killer pets set for silver screen

THE Scots comic book writer who relieved Batman of his trademark cape and made the X-Men’s Magneto a drug addict is now poised to bring a group of killer pets to Hollywood.

Grant Morrison is in talks with New Line Cinema — the film company behind The Lord of the Rings — to turn one of his most bizarre comic strips into a Hollywood film.

We3, the story of a group of pets kidnapped by the government and transformed into robo-assassins, is set to follow in the footstep of other successful comic book adaptations including Sin City, The Hulk, Spiderman and Batman.

Drawn by the acclaimed comic artist Frank Quitely, who is also from Glasgow, We3 is a violent and bloody reworking of The Incredible Journey, the 1963 Disney film in which three animals — a cat, a dog and a rabbit — have to find their way home after becoming separated from their